Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] years [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His memories of Heather , bolstered by his possession of her photographs , had given him courage and hope , emotions to which he had been a stranger for more years than he cared to remember . |
| 2 | Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for |
| 3 | ‘ I was unemployed for two years and I have just got a nice job . |
| 4 | ( Perhaps their paintings said things to one another during these years that they could never say in person . ) |
| 5 | The Club proved very popular for many years as it appealed to the many actors , artists and musicians who found the atmosphere of Bedford Park most congenial . |
| 6 | She lay derelict for 10 years before she was restored for the Museum in 1988 . |
| 7 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 8 | They 've been married for 11 years and they 've always been so happy . |
| 9 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |
| 10 | I HAVE been happily married for five years and we have two children . |
| 11 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 12 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 13 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
| 14 | They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 15 | She still had n't got over the shock of seeing David Markham again ; it must be … she did a rapid calculation in her head … all of five years since he 'd walked out of their lives . |
| 16 | In 1848 an experienced mines inspector and engineer could write in A Treatise on the Winning and Working of Collieries : ‘ Explosions of gas have unfortunately become so numerous in late years that it would be impossible in the absence of specific records to enumerate them . ’ |
| 17 | I 've not shagged any one for two years so you said that |
| 18 | ‘ But I know I 've got to be as successful over the next five to eight years as I have been so far . |
| 19 | You can repay the money over five to fifteen years and you decide how long . |
| 20 | They said it 's only in the last five to seven years that they 've had the technology to do it . ’ |
| 21 | It is the response of the supermarket business as a whole to the demand for a healthier and more natural product , freshly produced to a high standard , which has led to the advent of the in-store bakery , and in turn created the need , at any rate within Sainsbury 's , for structured , high quality management training , geared much more towards how we plan the business to grow over the next five to ten years than it is to simply manning the pumps . |
| 22 | they train in in Wrexham , in the midwifery she says they have n't trained any for two years and they 're not training any next year either ! |
| 23 | Also , I 've been on my own for 30 years and I 'm rather set in my ways . |
| 24 | ‘ We have managed to keep relations very harmonious for many years and we will not let anything disrupt that harmony , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Erwin even questions whether there is room for the mainframe in this scenario — ‘ If the mainframe 's price-performance relationship is the same in five years as it is now , it does n't stand a chance ’ . |
| 26 | But the sweet taste of success has gone sour over recent years as he slumped into the doldrums . |
| 27 | Sheila worked at 97 Kingston on the cheese and butter counter from 1955 for 11 years until she left to start a family . |
| 28 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 29 | Of the males in Norway , one of the best of recent years that I have particularly liked was Norwegian Ch. |
| 30 | The debate over what has become known as ‘ blindsight ’ has become very heated in recent years and it is difficult to see which side is correct . |